Sash-cord fastener.



6.0. TRACY. SASH CORD FASTENER- APPLICATION FILED JUNE 22. ISIS- Pmm NW, 27;, 191?.

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IT @TAd AENT CHARLES OSCAR TRACY, OF NORWICH, CONNECTICUT.

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To all whom it may concern: Be it known that I, GHARLE OSCAR Tnaoiga citizen of the United States, residing at Norwich, in the county of New London and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Sash-Cord Fasteners, of which th following is a specification. This invention has as its object to pro- .v-ide an improved devicefor securing sash cords to window sashes and it is oneaim of the present invention to provide a device of this class; soconstructed that the same will not be liable to split the wood of which the sash is made. Ordinarily, such devices are provided with heads which are designed to be positioned within openings formed in the side membersor stiles of the sash and these heads are formed with one or more spurs designed to enter the walls of the openings. It has been foundthat devices of this type so constructed present the disadvantage that the spurs are liable to split the wood, thereby loosening the connection of the cord with the sash and pre venting ready raising and lowering of the sash. The present invention, therefore, contemplates the provision of means for coaction with the walls of the openings in the side members of the sashfor limitingtheentrance of the spurs into the wood and thereby obviating splitting of the wood or loosening of the connection and at the same time rendering the connection between the de-' vice and the sash more secure.

In applying devices of this nature to the ends of sash cords it is customary to lay the end of the cord in the device, grasping the head of the device in one hand and with the other hand striking blows with a hammer or like implement to strike down the spurs of the device to cause the same to grip the said end of the cord. In a wellknown type of such devices the spurs are so located upon the head that the head cannot be grasped for the purpose above stated without likelihood of the spurs cutting into the fingers and, therefore, it is a further aim of the invention to so construct the present device that the head thereof may be conveniently grasped and firmly held without any likelihood whatsoever of the fingers being injured by the spurs upon the head.

In the accompanying drawings:

Figure 1 is a side elevation of one of the Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed. June 22, 1916.

Patented Nov. 2?, ililill.

Serial No. 105,214..

devices applied to a window sash and the weight cord therefor.

Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the device removed. a

Fig. 3 is a top plan view thereof.

Fig. l is a view similar to Fig. 1, illustrating the use of the device in connection with a chain as distinguished from a weight supporting cord.

Fig. 5 is a similar view illustrating the use of the device in connection with a tape.

The device embodying the present invention includes a body portion which is in the form of an open sleeve and substantially semicylindrical, this said portion being indicated by the numeral 1 and being formed at each lateral edge with a series of spurs indicated by the numeral 2, the spurs at the two edges being alternately arranged as clearly shown in Figs. 1 and 2 of thedrawings. The spurs2preferably constitute continuations of the opposite side portions of the body 1 andit will be understood that in applying the device to a sash cord the end of the cord is laid within the concave side of the body and the spurs 2 are struck down with a hammer or other suitable implement so as to firmly bind the cord in the man ner shown in Fig. l, the said cord being in dicated by'the numeral 3, or the device may be employed in connection with a chain indicated at 4 in Fig. 41 of the drawings, or a tape indicated at 5 in Fig. 5 of the drawings. After striking down the said spurs in the manner stated, the cord, chain or tape, as the case may be, is laid within a groove 6 formed in the outer face of the stile of the window sash and this groove at its lower end communicates with a recess 7 formed in the said face of the stile and the wall of this recess is preferably cylindrical as shown in Fig. 1. At its lower end the body 1 is formed with a neck 8 which projects from the convex side of the said body at the said end thereof at right angles to the longitudinal axis of the body and this neck is provided with lateral extensions 9 integral with its lateral edges and the said extensions as well as the neck itself are continuously and uniformly curved on the arc of a circle from end to end of the said ex tensions, the curvature being such that when the device is assembled with the stile of the window sash, the convex upper side of the neck and its extensions 9 will fit snugly against the upper side of the cylindrical wall of the opening 7, in the manner" shown in Figs. 1, 4: and 5.

At its end the neck 8 is provided with an integral head 10 which occupies a plane par allel to the longitudinal axis of the body 1 and which extends downwardly below the plane of the said neck and has an arcuate lower edge indicated by the numeral 11. The upper edge of the head 10 is formed at its ends with upwardly and outwardly projecting spurs 12 which are preferably sharply pointed and which occupy the same plane as the said head. By reference to Figs. 1 and 20f the drawings, it will be ob served that the extensions 9 of the neck 8 have their extremities terminating short of or within the are described by the edge 11 of the head 10 and that when the device is viewed. in elevation the said extensions 9 at their'end portions extend partway across therear faces of the spurs 12, the said extensions being, however, spaced from the rear face of the head 10 and its said spurs. It will also be observed by reference to Fig. 1 that the upper edge of the head 10 is not located directly at the juncture of the head with the'neck 8 but that the upper edge of the said head is connected with the neck by a short connecting portion 13 and, therefore, the upper edge of the head is located below the planeof the neck 8 and the Spurs 12 may enter the upper side of the cylindrical wall of the recess 7 'without such entering being interfered with by the upper edge of the head although the engagement of the upper or convexside of the neck Sand its extensions 9 with the said upper side of the said Wall of the recess serves to limit the entrance of the spurs into the said wall of the recess.

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vention it Will, be understood that when the device is applied to the stile of a window sash the upper or convex side of the neck 8 and the extensions 9 thereof will seat firmly and snugly against the upper side of the cylindrical wall of the recess 7 and will prevent the spurs 12 from entering so far into the wood as to be liable to split the same. It will also be understood that the device embodying the present invention may be readily grasped between thethumb and forefinger of one hand while the device isbeing applied to the sash cord, chain or tape, the thumb being disposedjagainst thatface of the head 10 which is presented towardthe body 1 and Within the concavity formed; by the under side ofthe neck- 8 and its extensions 9, the forefinger bearing against, the opposite face of the said headandthe thumb and finger being in this manner enabled to i firmly grasp the device without likelihood of" either being injuredby the spurs 12.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is:

In a device of the class described, a clamp- ,1

ing body provided with a neck-extending rearwardly from its lowerend at right fangles to the plane of the rear side of; the body and thence downwardly atiright angles and provided at its last-mentioned portion with a a fiat sided head occupying a plane at right angles to the, plane of the first-mentioned portion of the said neck, the neck being pro v vided at the lateral edges of the said firstmentioned portion with extensions continu ously curved laterally and downwardly, the said head at its upper edgebeing provided with upstanding spurs in rear of said exten-' sions of the neck. V v

In testimony whereof I afiixjmy signature.

, CHARLES OSCAR rRAo i L 8.]

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